OCCASIONAL NOTES. 33 
DeatH oF Mr. Grorce Dawson Rowiry.—An estimable gentleman 
and an accomplished scholar and naturalist has passed away, in the person 
of the late Mr. George Dawson Rowley, whose death took place at Brighton 
on the 21st November. For some months past he had been in failing 
health, consequent upon a serious attack of pulmonary hemorrhage, and his 
condition, while necessitating the greatest care of himself, had long been a 
source of much anxiety to his friends. Unable to take that active outdoor 
exercise, an indulgence in which is induced by an ardent taste for natural 
history, he had perforce to content himself at home with those resources 
which a well-stored mind has ever at command; and with a study of the 
many valuable objects of zoological and antiquarian interest which were’ 
to be found in his museum. From time to time the result of his 
researches found their way into print in the pages of ‘ The Zoologist,’ the 
‘Field,’ the ‘ Ibis,’ and the ‘ Proceedings of the Zoological Society,’ as well as 
in occasional pamphlets. His most important undertaking, however, was 
his ‘ Ornithological Miscellany,’ a quarto periodical, printed at his own 
expense, and beautifully illustrated with coloured plates. In this work, 
which will form a lasting monument to his memory, many species of 
exceeding rarity and beauty are figured and described, either by himself 
or others of the many able naturalists who contributed to his pages. In 
addition, Mr. Rowley, at the time of his death, had made considerable 
progress with an important work upon the Garefowl or Great Auk, Alca 
impennis, of which bird, now believed to be extinct, he was the fortunate 
possessor of two skins and half a dozen eggs. Amongst the other 
manuscripts which he has left are “ Bits and Fragments round a Saxon 
Saint,” “Chronicles of the Rowleys,” and notes for “A History of 
Huntingdonshire” (in which county, as well as in Rutlandshire, he 
possessed family property), besides several other unpublished essays of an 
historical and antiquarian character. Mr. Rowley was the eldest son of the 
late Mr. George William Rowley, of Priory Hill, Huntingdonshire, and was 
born on May 8rd, 1822. He married in 1849, Caroline Frances, only 
daughter of Archdeacon Lindsay, by whom he leaves an only son, George 
Fydell Rowley. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, 
where he graduated M.A., and was a Fellow of the Linnean and 
Zoological Societies. He was deputy-lieutenant for Rutland, high sheriff 
for that county in 1870, and a justice of the peace for Huntingdonshire, 
Lincolnshire, and Rutland. His death will be regretted by a large circle 
of friends, as well as by his many brother naturalists, to whom he was 
ever ready to impart the results of his study and experience, and who 
are indebted to him, through his published writings, for much valuable 
information, 
